The Waiting Room
by Lisa Loomer

The Waiting Room Book Cover
The Waiting Room Cover

Synopsis

A dark comedy about the timeless quest for beauty-and its cost.

Three women from different centuries meet in a modern doctor's waiting room.

Forgiveness From Heaven is an eighteenth-century Chinese woman whose bound feet are causing her to lose her toes.

Victoria is a nineteenth-century tightly corsetted English woman suffering from what is commonly known as "hysteria."

Then there is Wanda, a modern gal from New Jersey who is having problems with her silicone breasts.

Husbands, doctors, Freud, the drug industry and the FDA all come under examination.

The play is a wild ride through medical and sexual politics, including the politics of the ever-present battle with breast cancer.

Themes

Performance

Cast

A medium cast size of 11 total roles, 4 female and 7 male roles.

Publication

Year Published
1998
ISBN 10
0822215942
ISBN 13
9780822215943
Binding
Paperback
Print Length
72 pages
Place Published
New York
Language
English
LCCN
98228483
LCC
PS3562.O583 W3 1998
DCC
812/.54
Print
The Waiting Room is a American comedy / farce play written by and published by Dramatists Play Service in New York, 1998. The print edition has an ISBN-13 of 9780822215943 and an ISBN-10 of 0822215942.

Rating

3.75 out of 5

from 137 ratings and 13 reviews

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